THE NETHERLANDS: The Buccaneer

A score of Dutch policemen
surrounded a baronial house near Amsterdam before dawn one day last
week, while seven others, led by Amsterdam Police Chief Jeremias
Posthuma, knocked on the front door. The master of the manor, Count van
Rechteren Limpurg, appeared. "We have come for Westerling," announced
Chief Posthuma. "My guest left last night," said the count icily. The
chief and his men went inside to see for themselves.

After poking into corners, crawling under beds and tapping walls, the
police were just about ready to leave when one of them found...